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Drug department to be closed in absence of licensed person

Cap. 311, s. 26 · Revised Edition 2020

(1) No person shall leave his shop or store, or that part thereof that may be kept for the sale and dispensing of drugs and poisons, open during his absence without leaving a registered chemist and druggist in charge thereof and actually in attendance therein, unless before leaving he puts away and properly secures articles which under this Act cannot be sold except by a registered person. (2) Any person who contravenes this section commits an offence and is liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, and in default of payment to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one month. (3) In any prosecution under this section, the particulars set forth on any label affixed to a container purporting to indicate the contents of such container shall be sufficient evidence of the contents of such container, unless the contrary is shown.
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